The .helmignore file
The .helmignore
file is used to specify files you don't want to include in
your helm chart.
If this file exists, the helm package
command will ignore all the files that
match the pattern specified in the .helmignore
file while packaging your
application.
This can help in avoiding unnecessary or sensitive files or directories from being added in your helm chart.
The .helmignore
file supports Unix shell glob matching, relative path
matching, and negation (prefixed with !). Only one pattern per line is
considered.
Here is an example .helmignore
file:
# comment
# Match any file or path named .git
.git
# Match any text file
*.txt
# Match only directories named mydir
mydir/
# Match only text files in the top-level directory
/*.txt
# Match only the file foo.txt in the top-level directory
/foo.txt
# Match any file named ab.txt, ac.txt, or ad.txt
a[b-d].txt
# Match any file under subdir matching temp*
*/temp*
*/*/temp*
temp?
Some notable differences from .gitignore:
- The '**' syntax is not supported.
- The globbing library is Go's 'filepath.Match', not fnmatch(3)
- Trailing spaces are always ignored (there is no supported escape sequence)
- There is no support for '!' as a special leading sequence.
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